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Holy CRAP it's been far toooooo long! I'm so sorry it took this long to get this up but I've been so busy with school, home, sports, etc. so again I'm so sorry and I hope you've enjoy this chapter and I hope it was well worth the wait!

After Al had lost sight of his brother he had been broken inside too. He knew it wasn't his brother's fault, it was the arrancar's fault. Al hung quietly under Grimmjowe arm as the three Arrancar began making their way back to Hueco Mundo.

"Ugh, Ulquiorra I'm bored!" Rarna complained. Yet again, no one seemed to care what Rarna was saying. Rarna sighed knowing he was being ignored once more.

'Why doesn't anyone ever say anything to me?'

Rarna wondered to himself.

Grimmjowe looked down at Al. He was curious as to why he wasn't saying anything, or even struggling to get free. Did he really know that there was nothing he could do? Grimmjowe also wondered about the armour. It looked so heavy yet it felt so light. Grimmjowe wanted to see the real person who was in the armour. Grimmjowe began to reach down to Al's helmet and grabbed it.

"I wouldn't do that," Al warned monotonously.

Grimmjowe pulled his hand back and now Rarna was interested in what was going on. Ulquiorra still walked on, not seeming to care. "Is that so?" Grimmjowe challenged. Al didn't respond to Grimmjowe. This made Grimmjowe slightly annoyed. He reached for Al's helmet once more and grabbed it.

"I wouldn't do that," Al repeated once more.

"Why the hell shouldn't he?" Rarna questioned.

Al sighed. "It's difficult to explain but it's best if you didn't take my helmet off."

Grimmjowe laughed menacingly. "What makes you think I'd listen to trash like you?" With that Grimmjowe ripped off Al's helmet and threw it to the ground. Grimmjowe and Rarna gasped and stopped dead in their tracks. Ulquiorra, annoyed now turned back to Grimmjowe and Rarna, about to tell them to keep moving or Aizen would become agitated. He too stopped and stared, shocked at the site of Al.

"I told you," Grimmjowe nearly dropped Al, shocked to see that there was absolutely nothing inside of Al, yet he was still in the armour somehow.

"What trickery is this?" Rarna asked, frustrated that he couldn't figure it out. Ulquiorra walked over to Al's helmet and picked it up, his expression cool and calm once more.

"There's no trick, it's alchemy," Al told Grimmjowe. Ulquiorra examined Al's helmet closely. "Um..Excuse me but why are you looking at me so closely?"

"I knew there was something peculiarly strange about this one," Ulquiorra uttered. "Something more stranger than that other one."

Al looked at Ulquiorra, puzzled. "Explain yourself!" Rarna exclaimed, wanting to understand this.

"There is no time for that Rarna," Ulquiorra began. Ulquiorra walked over to Al's armored body and put Al's helmet back. "Lord Aizen is waiting for us. He can explain when we're there."

Rarna was mad. He wanted to know now. But he knew what happened if you made Aizen wait too long so he just went with it. The rest of the way back to Wako Mundo was pretty much silent. The three arrancars were trying to wrap their minds around what they had just witnessed.

'Things are getting very interesting,'

Grimmjowe told himself with a smirk on his face.

Ed began to slowly regain conscientious. At first all he heard was the beeping of what sounded to him like a heart monitor and was blinded by lights that were too bright.

"Ed!"
"Fullmetal. . ."
"Elric."

Ed slowly adjusted his eyes to the lighting of the room and soon his vision was cleared. He shifted his gaze in the direction in which he thought he heard someone calling out his name. To his surprise he saw Roy, Toshiro, Riza, and even Winry in the room. He also noticed some other people he wasn't sure he knew. Ed tried to ask what was going on but he throat was burning with a sudden intense need for something to drink.

"Edward can you hear me?"

Ed turned his attention to a feminine voice that asked the question. It was Winry. Ed just nodded his head 'yes' in response to Winry's question.

"How are you feeling?" The one standing next to Winry asked. Ed just looked up at the ceiling, ignoring Riza. He closed his eyes and let the memories flow back to him. Suddenly he remembered.

Al.

Ed shot up in the bed he was laying in. "AL!" Ed screeched in a crackly voice.

"Calm down fullmetal!" Roy commanded, grabbing Ed's arms, trying to restrain him.

"No! Damn it no! They took him!" Ed began, flailing against Roy. "They took my brother! My only brother. Those bastards are going to PAY!"

Seeing that Roy needed help, everyone in the room, even Toshiro began to grab at any limbs of Ed that were flailing about in the air. The room was total chaos. Everyone was yelling at Ed all at once, trying to get him to calm down but no voice was any match for the grieving screams coming from Ed.

"HMMM!" A very muscular man uttered as he broke down the door. "That is quite ENOUGH!" The man bellowed. With that he plowed through the group of people surrounding Ed and picked Ed up, embracing him in a huge bear hug. Ichigo and the rest of the gang entered the room at that moment, wondering if there was another attack because of all the screaming.

"Major.." Ed mumbled, trying to capture the breath being squeezed out of me. "Can't...Breath!"

Roy chuckled. "Alright Armstrong, I think he's had enough."

Armstrong nodded and threw Ed back on his bed. Ed began holding his throat, gasping for much needed air that was squeezed out of him. Armstrong laughed and threw his shirt off of him, flexing to reveal to everyone his huge biceps. "And that is why we Armstrong's are the strongest of the strong why yes we are! We are blessed with this monstrous strength yet cursed with our flawless beauty and grace!" Armstrong began gloating while sudden pink sparkles surrounded him. Riza and Winry sighed.

"Alright Major that's enough," Roy said in a serious tone. "Please give us some time alone, if Ed acts up again we will need your help but next time, please don't break the door or anything unless it's necessary ok?"

"HMM!" With that Armstrong darted out of the room. Ichigo and the gang were slightly confused but it was a good thing they were used to that sort of stuff.

"Just what the hell was that all about?" Ichigo questioned entering the room with Orihime, Chad and Uryu.

Toshiro gazed at Ichigo with his ice-cold stare. "Don't ask."

"Captain..?" Matsumoto questioned. She knew the only reason why Toshiro would act in such a manner was if he was severely annoyed with something. It was hard not to blame him for being annoyed.

"Ed..." Winry began as she placed her hand on his shoulder. He didn't even acknowledge she was even there. Ed felt as if he lost his voice once more. Ed looked to his sides to see if there was anything that he could drink to cure his thirst. He snatched up the cup of water sitting on a table next to his bed and guzzled it with one gulp.

"At any rate, let's get back to the matter at hand," Toshiro began, breaking the silence in the room. "Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward Elric. You are hear by summoned to a meeting with the head of the 13 court yard squads, captain Yamamoto."

Ed didn't even look up at Toshiro. He just stared at his now empty cup he held in his hands. "I told them it'd be best for you to rest up here for a bit before they hauled you off into an unfamiliar place," Roy explained.

"Where. . ." Ed began. All eyes were on him. "Where the hell did those BASTARDS take my BROTHER?" Ed exclaimed, glaring up at Toshiro.

"If anywhere they would have taken them back to their own separate dimension, Hueco Mundo." Uryu answered, knowing Edward deserved an explanation.

"Hueco Mundo?" Winry questioned.

"Hueco Mundo is the dimension where usually all Hollows and Arrancars reside." Matsumoto began.

"It is located between the Human world and Soul Society, though it is separate from the bordering dimension known as Dangai. It can only be accessed by tearing the dimensional fabric separating the worlds, allowing beings like us, Arrancars or Hollows to travel to any other dimension at will. Depending on the spiritual pressure of one of those beings, the effect of this process varies. Regular Hollows or beings with a low level spiritual pressure usually appear from a small black vortex or form out of smoke, while Menos-class Hollows or even some higher ranking Shinigamis or someone with a ridiculous amount of spiritual pressure, quite literally tear the sky apart to emerge. Arrancars, however, use a more stable variant of the latter technique known as Gargantua." Toshiro explained giving a more detailed explanation.

Ed sat in the bed, trying to both take in all this new information and understand it. "I see. That's where I'm going."

"Hueco Mundo is a place not to be taken lightly," Matsumoto began to warn. "Not any average human can just walk in and expect to survive. No ORDINARY person can do it. Leave infiltration to us, we know how to handle them."

Ed looked up at Matsumoto, glaring at her. "Hate to burst your bubble but in case you haven't noticed we here in the alchemic dimension are not your ORDINARY people, if you couldn't already see that." Ed replied coldly.

'That look. .'

Matsumoto began. 'It looks just like. . . Captain?'Matsumoto tore her eyes from Ed to her Captain. She was shocked to see such a resemblance.

Roy laughed. "Well Fullmetal I'll have to admit I've never seen you THIS angry before." Ed just glared at Roy.

"This is hardly the time for jokes now, Cornell," Riza warned Mustang. Ed just kept glaring at Roy, his mind at a loss for words because he was too concerned about finding and rescuing the only family he had left in existence. The only thing that kept him living on. His brother.

"Look we all understand." Ichigo spoke up. Eyes in the room fell upon him. "We understand that your little brother is important to you. We know. We all have loved ones close to our hearts. We all would do the same thing you are probably but you've got to think this through. As much as I want to go into Hueco Mundo and kick the shit out of those damn arrancars, we can't. We don't have the necessary things here to provide us with what we need to get there." Ichigo explained.

"Where then? Where do we have to go?" Ed questioned, determined to get Al back.

"Back to the our dimension, the dimension of Shinigamis." Toshiro replied. As much as Ed disliked the idea of going back to the realm of the Shinigamis he knew he had no choice. He had made a promise to Al that he would keep at all costs.

Suddenly, before Edward's eyes a dark brown wooden door appeared in front of his bed he was laying in. Everyone watched as the door began slowly opening only to see another set of doors. This door way also opened but in a different way than the first doorway opened up. At first nothing could be seen from beyond the door. There was a blinding light, making anyone unable to see what was inside the doors. A hell butterfly emerged from the light and fluttered slowly but elegantly over to Toshiro. Toshiro held out his hand and the butterfly landed softly on his index finger. Toshiro stared at the butterfly.

"What the?" Ichigo began, breaking the silence. "What's a hell butterfly doing here?"

"Captain," Matsumoto said in a soft but questioning voice.

Toshiro stared at the butterfly for a moment longer and then he spoke. "Something has happened in the soul society."

"So they sent the hell butterfly to summon us back," Orihime concluded. Toshiro nodded, never taking his eyes off the butterfly. Ed stared at it with him. It was unlike any butterfly he had ever laid eyes on.

'Just what kind of creatures are in this soul society?'

Ed wondered to himself as he gazed at the butterfly with admiration.

"Let's get going," Toshiro commanded. The Shinigamis and the others nodded. As Toshiro shifted his hand, the butterfly flew off his hand. Ed was pretty curious about this. Thanks to his curiosity he just needed to learn more about what he wanted to know. Toshiro looked at Ed and Ed stared back. Ed nodded his head, understanding that he must go to the soul society in order to save Al. It was as if Toshiro and Ed were both having a conversation, a battle, with each other's eyes. Ed sighed and got out of his bed.

"I'm ready," Ed declared. Toshiro looked away and began walking toward the blinding light. Everyone else followed.

"Hold on a second there Fullmetal," Roy said, stopping everyone in their tracks. Ed looked back at Roy both annoyed and determined. Roy knew the look in Ed's eyes all too well both from the past and the present. "I'm coming with you." Roy announced.

"Why the hell would you come with us?" Ed questioned. Riza looked at Roy shocked. Roy never looked away from Ed. Riza didn't want the Cornell to leave but she could understand his actions.

"Well Fullmetal, you think you can handle something like this on your own? No way I'm not risking it."

"Captain do you think he should come with us?" Matsumoto asked Toshiro.

"Ah let him come," Ichigo uttered before Toshiro could respond. "We already saw what he can do, he's not just some ordinary human."

There was a long pause. The silence was driving Ed crazy. He knew every second mattered. As he was about to say something, Toshiro beat him. "Come if you must." With that Toshiro walked on into the light.

"Captain wait for us!" Matsumoto yelled after Toshiro as she darted into the light as well.

"Well it's time to go back guys." Ichigo told his little gang. Everyone else nodded. As Ichigo and his gang were making their way to the doorway Roy turned around and looked at Riza.

"Hawkeye," Roy began. Riza's eyes became locked with Roy's eyes. "Tell the Major that he's to be in charge while I'm gone. I don't know how long this will take. Surely if you explain the situation to the Fuhrer he will understand." Roy watched Riza's eyes. They were begging him not to leave her but Roy knew that Fullmetal couldn't do this alone. Besides, he himself was pretty curious about the Shinigamis and Arrancar. Roy turned to the two other people in the room that Fullmetal wasn't exactly familiar with. Ed was going to ask Roy about them later. "You two, the crystal duo," Roy began. "I hereby order you two to be my eyes while I'm away. If anything suspicious happens, investigate. If necessary kill to defend our beloved military, understand?"

"Yeah, yeah we got it," One of them replied. This person was female. She was tall and had light blond hair color that was nearly white with her skin tone to match. Her soft light blue eyes stood out the most because of how much black eye shadow that surrounded her eyes. The outfit she wore, every little detail of it was black as well.

"Geez Roy we're not little kids, we can take care of things," The other one old Roy. This person was also female. She was slightly shorter than the first girl. Her dark brown hair, nearly black mixed almost perfectly with her icy blue eyes. She wore glasses, giving off the appearance that she was a nerd. If Ed didn't know any better, he wouldn't have guessed either of them were military officers considering one was wearing all black while the other was wearing casual clothing.

Roy smirked. "Come on Mustang let's go," Ed said rather impatiently.

Roy began towards the seemingly small doorway. "Just come back to us," Riza whispered as she watched Roy's back. Ed had already began walking through the strange doorway as Roy slowly approached it. As Riza watched Roy step through the doorway, she couldn't hold her voice back any longer. "Just come back alive Cornell!"

Riza wasn't sure but even though Roy's back was to her, she could have swore on her life that Roy smiled and whispered, "I'll be back." As Roy disappeared into the light the hell butterfly fluttered lightly through the air and into the light. Not even a millisecond later after the butterfly disappeared, the doorway closed up and vanished. It was as if it never existed.

Winry looked out the window, unsure of what to think of all this. She knew she couldn't have stopped Ed from leaving so she didn't bother to try. It would have been a waste of his time. As much as she wanted Edward to stay with her here, she wanted Al to return safely back with Edward more than anyone could have imagined. After all, Ed and Al were like brothers to her. She had all her hope in faith in Edward. Her mind was set on the idea that they would return together again with Roy.

A/N: Ok I know this was kinda shortish and trust me I had way more than this but something went wrong with my internet and I couldn't save the last part with what happened with Al so I decided that I should update now rather than wait another month or two. You guys have been waiting far too long so I'm sorry that this may be a boring chapter but like i said i had more but i figured i should update now before i totally forget so yea. I AM SO SRRY IT TOOK SO LONG FOR ME TO UPDATE! I WILL TRY TO UPDATE FASTER!

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